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>> all is quiet this morning in san francisco at city hall. protesters were put in handcuffs by sheriff deputies, 20 to 30, many city college of san francisco students cited and released at 12:45 part of a group of 100 protesters rallying on the steps of city hall bethey -- bethey staged a credit in to help them keep accredit dangerous. >> it is unclear why the mayor will not meet with the students so collectively it was decided we would wait and hoping the mayor will listen to us and meet our demands but he calls the police to arrest us. >> the protesters demanded the mayor support the dropping of sappings by the accreditation committee and fired the special trustee because the school could
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be closed because of a loss accreditation. a student said that he was cited for trespassing and disrupting a meeting which are misdemeanors. >> two supporters of college college when to an >>ashley:youing the civil right units and encourages him to support the overturning of the decision and complied with a request to stand to the side of the road. >> from the area neocement national park a wildfire continues to burn out of control forcing the closure of the common route to enter the park. >> highway 120 is shut down in both directions and campgrounds are evacuated including a special week for 200 senior citizens. look at the massive flames seen
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crossing the roadway and the rim fire has burned 10,000 acres and zero percent contained. 2,000 houses, hotels and camps are in harm's way. the fire has claimed two homes and fire outbuildings since saturday. a woman who lost her home talks to us. >> we just had a family reunion up there the first weekend of august with 60 people up there, a big family reunion so... >> helicopters and planes are blocking waterren at flames and 700 firefighters are on the job. both the growth potential and the terrain is "extreme." red flag warning is out which means lightning is possible in the area through today. there are evacuation centers open at the fair grounds and the
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community center. the cause of the fire is not known. >> highway four near america cheese is re-opened after a car fire spread to a hillside causing a huge backup and burned three abeers before crews knocked it down and now it is contained but firefighters stayed on the scene for several hours. the road re-opened at 1:00 o'clock this morning. firefighters and homeowners are on alert and are to keep 100' around their homes. if lightning strikes in dry brush a hillside can explode in minutes taking homes and properties. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield will have more for residents at the top of the hour. >> on the peninsula police are investigating a deadly shooting in east palo alto that happened shortly after 10:00 p.m.
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police found a 19-year-old who died at the hospital slumped over in his car. the spot shotter system detected eight rounds fired. police have no suspected or motive and are asking witnessing to come forward. >> today, a military judge plans to announce the sentence for broadly manning, the analyst who gave classified information to wikileaks. the military judge will announce the sentence at 7:00 a.m. our time in maryland. he fays up to 90 years in prison for mishandling classified information and acquitted of serious charge of aiding the enemy. the prosecution claims the decision to release more than 700,000 documents hurt security and put lives at risk. the attorneys say he never intended to hurt anyone. bay area supporters are gathering in san francisco at 5:00 p.m. to react to the judge's decision and supporters
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planning gatherings around the world including at 9 white house to call on president obama to pardon him. mike has more on the fire danger. >> the danger is low with temperatures cooler this morning and, still, humid outside but you will notice the change with more 50's across the board and 60's in san carlos at 63 and mountain view is 62 and 60 in fremont and live more and fairfield and 62 in antioch. check out san ramon, 55 degrees, and concord is 58, and 59 in san jose and 57 in san francisco and novato. the temperatures are running now, we can see we have one to six degrees of cooling about everywhere and our day manner
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today shows clouds rolling in and they will continue to do so through 9:00 and it will be a cooler breeze today so we will top out only in the mid-80's and low 70's around the bay and low 60's at the coast with stray storms possible this evening and overnight and up in the north bay continuing through thursday morning. by friday we will be quiet and saturday it will be cooler. we have construction headed along the peninsula with projects going on, and northbound side of 280 between wood side road and highway 92 crews are out there but it does not appear to be causing any slowing but you want to slow for the cone zone and the drive time traffic 580 from address to dublin, 25 minutes, not too bad headed westbound direction and from antioch to concord, 18 minutes and from san rafael to the city, you are looking at 16
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minute commute and a picture of san jose, 101, away from 880, you can see cars are coming along just fine with no problems there and the nimitz is clear with no slow downs and a little bit of construction making the approach that is closer to 280 you will find closings that will be picked up at 5:00 this morning. >> the stunning request from the family of the man accused of kidnapping a san diego teen and taking her from idaho and what they want. >> a call for calmer streets after a deadly accident involving a bicyclist, the san francisco rally planned for today. but, first, american's money report. >> mortgage rates rise according to zillow, 30 year fixed rate is averaging 4.52 percent with new numbers today from the national association of realtors are expected to show home sales were up in july. the dow jones industrial average
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dropped agains thering seven points but stocked ended up with s&p rising. >> david beckham is doing the second best thing, model in his underwear, the former soccer star will be part of a new ad campaign for h&m.
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>> covering santa clara, san francisco, east bay and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> 4:40. a mild morning out there, low fire danger this morning, but it will pick up again later on this afternoon and mike will also tell you how it is look outside and when the red flag danger will end. >> new details this morning involving james dimaggio the man accused kid kidnapping a san diego teen the dimaggio family is requesting d.n.a. samples
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from 16-year-old hannah anderson. they think dimaggio killed her mother and brother and set the bodies and home on fire before taking off for the wilderness with hannah and died in a shootout with the f.b.i. she was returnd to her father. a spokesman for dimaggio says that they want to know if dimaggio is the father of hannah and her brother. the 40-year-old left a life insurance policy to the grandmother expecting her to take care of them. >> one of the pit bulls that attacked a 4th grade boy in antioch is scheduled to be euthanized. the boy left the hospital a week and a half after being mauled. this is how he looked after the first surgery in sacramento. the other dog is quarantined. the mother says doctors will remost bandages tomorrow to see if he needs a third surgery. a fundraiser is held at four buffalo wild wings locations.
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a portion of the sales will be donated to his recovery fund. >> a 20-year old accused gunman is in custody after terrorizing an elementary school outside atlanta, georgia. we are hearing from the woman who helped talk the suspect into surrendering. >> 20-year-old michael brandon hill is in custody but the motive for terrorizing this atlanta healthty school will never be understood even his brother is at a loss. >> i could not tell you what his mine set was. i can say he has a long history of medical disorders including bipolar. >> he says his brother has a troubled past and arrested early this year foaled terrorist threats and sentenced to probation and anger management. yesterday, he allegedly threatened to kill everyone at the learning academy. >> he said "i'm not playing this
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is for real, that is not a game." he slipped into the school and barricaded himself inside the front office. he opened fire on the believes outside school clerk tried to talk him down. >> he was going to end his life and take the cops with him. he had a look on him that he was willing to kill and he said it. he said that he didn't have any reason to live and that he knew he was going to die today. >> she talked him into surrendering as teachers rushed the children out of the school. >> i give it to god. i'm now the hero. i was terrified. >> everyone's safe. everyone's safe. >> 800 elementary school kids runed to their parents, tears of joy that no one was hurt. investigators are looking into how hill got in the school. police believe he followed someone through the front door but he never made it past the
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main office. >> time for a check on the weather trust. >> mike nicco is here. crews worried about the danger. >> they should be. there is a threat of a thunderstorm through tomorrow morning at this time and it will push off, at that point. we have live doppler 7 hd showing how quiet the weather is and the clouds along the coast and the sea breeze is picking up and pushing into the bay as we speak and right now all the visibility is running nearly unlimited. we will talk about what will happen as we look at the embarcadero center from the exploritorium thunderstorm and fire the threat is best in the night. the threats will continue so you can on the ones if you are able to in your area and let some of the refreshing air back in. below average weekend, so we will get a warming trend on friday and we will shut it off with a sea breeze developed
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friday and sunday and upper 70's to low 88 through most of the santa clara valley and mid-to-upper 80's around morgan hill and los gatos. millbrae is a little bit cooler at 72 degrees and mid-60's along the coast, and daly city and colma are 63 and upper 60's if downtown and south san francisco and to sausalito but mainly mid-to-upper 70's through the north bay and at the beaches the mid-to-upper 60's and the east bay shore, low-to-mid 70's until fremont at 77 and our east bay valley we go. we may make it to 90 on the car they are emergency step but officially in the mid-80's to upper 80's throughout the afternoon. the low pressure shows a low moving to the north. it is pushing clouds into our neighborhoods right now, and during the afternoon hours the best chance of thunderstorms is in the high country as the air
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is lifted by the western slope. through tomorrow morning we have a chance of thunderstorms in the north bay but to the north and the east that is where we will have the best chance of thunderstorms tomorrow. a stray them could be close enough to the north bay so the fire threat is still in until 3:00 tomorrow morning. the seven-day forecast shows partly sunny tomorrow and the sea breeze is kicking in late in the day and friday is a brief warning trend and the cooler weather more normal pattern for saturday, sunday, monday and tuesday and morning clouds and afternoon sunshine. we have a construction project that will be wrap up in the next 15 minutes or so and this is in the east bay travel along the nimitz in the northbound and southbound direction through oakland through broadway and high street. in the southbound direction we see more slowing there and construction crews have at least four lanes blocked off causing a bottleneck headed in that direction. northbound, side, not too bad but we have four lanes closed out there as well and that
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should re-open in 15 minutes. now, along 280, catching the 280 extension over to king street you can see clear conditions and our map is shayed in green which could indicate mist or drizzle and nine minutes from highway one to king street and outside, the golden gate bridge shows construction crews and cones are being picked up northbound so they will open up all lanes and southbound side is clear and not a problem. eric? >> happening today, a rally is landed to call for safer streets in the south of market area by san francisco bicycle coalition. it takes place at 8:00 a.m. at the site of the fatal accident between a chuck and bicyclist, 24-year-old was hit at 6th by a truck making a turn at the intersection. the driver was not cited. the san francisco bicycle coalition says this is a third
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time a bicyclist has been hilt and killed. >> bicycle racks are now in san francisco popping up around the bay area. people will have 24-hour-a-day access to shares bicycles at spots in san francisco, palo alto, san jose, and other bay area cities. it is part of the bay area air quality management district of the to reduce car emissions. membership rates to join the bicycle share are $88 for a pass and $22 for a three-day pass and $9 for a daily pass. >> a shark sighting closes a popular bay area beach and what
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>> napa county has confirmed the first case of west nile virus this year. a man made a full recovery but officials say they have confirmed the first dead bird
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that tested positive for the virus. tonight the santa clara county is doing more fogging. the spraying will begin at 11 p.m. tonight. it will take several hours to complete the spraying. >> there is a beach closing in the northbound bay, for swimming and surfing for four more days after a 10' to 15' shark was spotted by a lifeguard. the sighting led the water to be called "off limits." he may have been attracted by an injured whale that washed ashore. experts say the 30 ton whale had
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bleeding around its heart and other signs of trauma but it had no broken bones. >> new this morning, progress is being made on raising the cruiseliner that ran aground in italy last year and they will turn the ship upright which has been resting on its side since january of last year when it capsized. crews have undergone months of prep work to make sure the ship is ready to be loathed up-- is ready to be moved upright. 32 people died when the ship ran aground. a trial for the captain is scheduled for next month, five crew members have already been convicted of manslaughter. >> today, a decommissioned ammunition ship deployed during the vietnam war will depart the reserve float, and will head for recycling in texas. it will be moved to the shipyard in vallejo and dry docked, cleaned of marine growth andless
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paint before going to texas. it was commissioned in 1971 until the navy decommission on it in 1999. >> time enjoy to check on our weather and the warn we still v. >> we have a high fire detainer in the north bay that extended until 3:00 tomorrow morning. as far as baseball, fireworks could be in the stadium with day games, both of them, including mariners and a's wrapping up the series and a high burn probability at at&t park starting at 12:45 and 64 and warming to 66 but it will be breezy. the energy to the east of bakersfield and fresno is mostly going to stay in the sierra so they have the best chap of thunderstorms during the daylight. 94 with smoke in yosemite and 77 in tahoe. over 100 in fresno and 80 if you are headed to los angeles. safe travels.
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>> we do have word that if brentwood along highway 4 we have traffic lights that are out because of a downed poll so pg&e is on the way to the scene. at the altamont pass from tracy, we have 66 miles per hour speed and dips down further in the pass and it loosens as you continue to livermore and pleasanton along 580 passing the dublin interchange you are in good shape and the sunol grade is not a problem at 65 miles per hour and highway 84 is clear at this hour and mass transit, everything is running on time and bart and muni and campaign, looking clear. >> apple co-founder cannot wait for the new apple phone expected to come out in essence -- next month. he says the iphone 5s is likely to have a fingerprint scanner, a faster processor than the 5, and better battery live.
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but the features do not intrigue him so much as the possibility of a new color. >> if there is a gold iphone, i will have it, if there is copper, i will have it. but only if it is good quality. if it looks lousy, i won't have it. if it doesn't look like a real apple product i won't have it. >> and he talks about his opinion on the new steve jobs movie. >> if you have never asked for direction or never had chicken pox, you share some of the traits as a freshman entering college in the call. there is the new mindset list and students are text savvy but college freshmen consider themselves it is -- spiritual, and folks born in 1995, news is crawling across the tv screen as long as they have been crawling
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themselves. a cell phone could be a bigger rite of passage than a car. concerts have never been fills with cigarette smoke or any other kind. chatting doesn't require talking and gaga has never been baby talk as java has never been just a cup of coffee and a tablet is not something you take two of and call your doctor in the morning. >> that is funny. >> 1995! are they hotdogs are legs in a new blog that is rival is asking just that. you probably have seen pictures like this on facebook, snap shops of people on the beach but are they legs are ating do this is poking fun.
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most people cannot tell the difference. >> if you see mustard, that is the clue. >> next at 5:00 a.m., high fire danger in some parts of the bay area and the impact of the warning and what you should watch out for. >> six weeks since she was last seen help now being used to find a missing oakland toddler. facebook is teaming up to get the world connected.
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>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news.
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>> we come up on 5:00 on wednesday, mr. mike nicco is here with a look at the forecast. >> and now the latest on what going on. not much on live doppler 7 hd. it is kind of a quiet morning. no clouds are rolling in. right now that is the big story. then we will head in the afternoon and especially overnight hours when we have the best chance of a stray storm up north but if we can get one here at any time until 3:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, for 22 hours we are under a high fire danger. now, you can see the cloud cover over san francisco right now and we will watch sfo with flight arrival delays and the north bay is where we have a stray share, 80 to 89, cool breezes around the bay and the coast in san francisco is 64 to 67. leyla gulen? >> a brand new accident on the freeway,10

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